Tag: communications enabled

We recently announced pricing for Lync Server 2010 which is the new name for our next Office Communication Server. You can find all the details at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/pricing-licensing.aspx Pricing and Licensing Lync Server 2010 follows the Server/Client Access License (CAL) model. Under this model, a Lync Server 2010 license is required for each operating system environment running Lync…

I have been wanting to write this post for sometime. Internally we have been playing around with the features of Office Communications Server 14 for sometime, and I haven’t been able to show you the new features. Well now I can. In the last week the OCS team released 5 new videos on edge.technet.com showing…

On August 9, 2010, Stuart Johnston wrote a nice article for Enterprise Networking Planet about the multi-year deal between Microsoft and Polycom. There are quite a few customers who have been using Polycom technologies and solutions for many years for video and teleconferencing needs. I have had many customers who asked about integrating those existing…

I was reading this article today on WindowsITPro site by B.K. Winstead. He talks about people that claim to be doing Unified Communications are most just piloting it, and most of the deployments are only using a very small percentage of the features of Unifed Communications(UC). His organization is using the Voice Mail part of…

In the last post, I had mentioned my research whitepaper titled “Preparing for Innovation: Understanding How IT Organizational Change Can Help Drive Success with Unified Communications”. If you lead or manage a technology team and haven’t read this paper yet, I’d encourage you to read it. One of the issues that I tackled in this research was…